<div dir="auto">N.B., your cell is polar, and you are not satisfying valence neutrality or Pauling's rules. It will never occur in reality, and any results you obtain with it will move science backwards.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Read up on oxide surfaces, much is known.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">_____<br>Professor Laurence Marks<br>"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought", Albert Szent-Györgyi<br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 01:59 Laurence Marks <<a href="mailto:laurence.marks@gmail.com">laurence.marks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Did you check:<div dir="auto">a) The BVS, to ensure that you do not have a GIGO surface?</div><div dir="auto">b) Whether the system has a decent gap or not -- I believe WO3 should be an insulator.</div><div dir="auto">c) Whether you are satisfying valence neutrality at the surface.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I expect you have a GIGO surface, 99.99% probability. You cannot just create an oxide supercell and expect it to lead to a realistic surface. Fixing layers won't help, and is flawed thinking.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">GIGO.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">_____<br>Professor Laurence Marks<br>"Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought", Albert Szent-Györgyi<br><a href="http://www.numis.northwestern.edu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.numis.northwestern.edu</a></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 01:31 Dr. K. C. Bhamu <<a href="mailto:kcbhamu85@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">kcbhamu85@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear Wien2k Users,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I am trying to relax the WO3 surface structure (1x1x5 with 15 Ang vacuum). The bulk structure crystallizes in 221 SG.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Then I created the 1x1x5 layered structure and relaxed the top two layers with the bottom three layers kept fixed. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I see after relaxation, the top layer detached from the system (the W-O bond length increased from 1.9 to 2.3 Ang), you can see from the PDF provided with this email.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I have tried with QE as well and the same problem I faced there.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I am wondering if someone has faced a similar experience and would like to share his/her experience with me to tackle this issue. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I have used a different strategy: with U, with U, with dipole correction, without dipole correction, vacuum up to 30Ang.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">As the bulk system is a high symmetry system, is it the reason due to the symmetry? If so then how one can handle it?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I am providing the required information here in the tar file (<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://we.tl/t-0vedkrUS54__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!Day7KZQBXQaPn8HGxSpldvOiJzObtS73z_8I17izzlA5ZmuvSj27rMzSsjCo-bt6MCzNAQ$" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">PLEASE DOWNLOAD FROM HERE</a>).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default">I would appreciate it if someone shares their experience with me.</div><div class="gmail_default"></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Regards</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Bhamu</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div></div>
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